* John Reiser: >>>> Thinking aloud: does anyone ever use symbol overriding for anything >>>> other than glibc? > >>> Yes. It is particularly useful for "spear fishing" debugging of lower-level >>> interfaces in large, complex multi-process applications. > >> That only seems to need shallow interposition, though. In most cases, I >> doubt you are interested in API calls from the library self because >> those are probably unproblematic. > > One actual case: why exp(600.0) ? Yes, the first use of overriding > was shallow and libm (part of glibc). But the caller was deep within > a scientific library, and the second overriding was not shallow at > all. That's still unaffected. What I meant is that you can still alter calls at library boundaries. Only purely internal calls are gone. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
